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The difference in aspect ratio shouldn't be a big deal. You may not be able to view any protected HD content, though, if you're not HDMI end to end. I don't know this for a fact, but it's a possibility. Maybe someone who's actually tried it can weigh-in?

From my experience you may run into some problems if its purely a computer monitor;

The most significant being that computer monitors don't have de-interlacing circuits so can only handle progressive video formats. So you can only feed them 480p, 720p, and 1080p (PPV only) resolutions from the receiver. Interlace formats 480i and 1080i are not supported.

The loss of 480i I could easily live with, but losing 1080i was needless to say, a major handicap.

Another is that computer monitors do not use overscan and the pixel display ratio is always 1:1.

Therefore if there is any annoying "VANC" (Vertical ancillary) information being transmitted in the TV program (closed captions, teletext, test signals, etc.) it may be visible at the top of the image.